[eccr] Trends in Communication: Call for Papers: Media and cultural policy in the enlarged EU

>Trends in Communication
>
>Call for Papers: Media and cultural policy in the enlarged  EU
>
>
>On May 2nd 10 new members acceded to the European Union. Of these, eight 
>are former Soviet satellites and seven of these have populations of less 
>than 10 million with average incomes less than two-thirds of the EU 
>average. Independent only since 1989 their very existence and integrity as 
>coherent, distinct, nation states owes a very great deal to their vital 
>national cultures and dogged popular loyalty to national language.
>
>-    What threats does accession pose, in and through the electronic 
>media, to such culture and language?
>-    Can and should public service broadcasting be maintained and financed 
>in these newly opened economies, and what is the   future role of national 
>broadcasting and particularly national public broadcasting in the 
>expanding union?
>-    Is the European cultural and media policy sufficiently developed to 
>guarantee the national cultural rights of smaller members?
>
>
>Trends in Communication invites contributions of 5000 - 8000 words 
>concerning any of the challenges raised for the Accession States by joining
>the union and embracing full deregulation of national media, and what 
>lessons can be drawn from the experience of existing member states?
>
>Articles should be a maximum of 8000 words and the submission deadline is 
>July 15th 2004.
>Please contact Deirdre Kevin, at (kevin /at/ eim.org)
>or Peter Flood, at (p_j_flood /at/ hotmail.com) if you intend submitting an article.
>An abstract outlining your proposed article should be sent by May 25th, 
>and the final submission deadline is July 15th 2004
>
>Please forward to interested colleagues.
>
>Best wishes
>
>Deirdre Kevin
>Peter Flood
>
>Trends in Communication is produced bi-annually by Lawrence Erlbaum and 
>Associates
>New Jersey/ London in association with the European Institute for the 
>Media, Duesseldorf.
>Editors: Jo Groebel
>Associate Editorial Board
>Peter van Baalen, Erasmus University
>Ronald Batenburg, The Netherlands
>Richard Collins, The Open University, UK
>Patrick van der Duijn, Delft University of Technology
>Barrie Gunter, University of Sheffield
>Teresa Harrison, University at Albany
>Richard Hawkins, TNO-STB, Netherlands
>Bart van den Hooff, University of Amsterdam
>Wim Hulsink, Erasmus University Rotterdam
>Jennings Bryant,  University of Alabama
>Deirdre Kevin,  European Institute for the Media, Duesseldorf
>Eddie CY Kuo, School of Communications and Information, Singapore
>Miriam Meckel, Staatskanzlei NRW
>Robert Picard, Turku School of Economics and Business Administration
>Paschal Preston, Dublin City University
>Erwin.R. Seydel, Twente University
>Colin Sparks, University of Wesminster
>Puay Tang, SPRU University of Sussex
>Peter Vitouch, Vienna University
>Georgette Wang, Hong Kong Baptist University
>Ralf Wigand, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
>
>

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